The 9pm Devilish Deepfakes of Democracy with Zoe Hawkins

Zoe Hawkins

The last couple of weeks have been full of online safety news, from eSafety Commissioner v X Corp in the Federal Court to AI to deepfakes. So my guest this time is. Zoe Jay Hawkins, head of policy design at ANU’s Tech Policy Design Centre.

In this episode we talk about the way AI and deepfakes might influence this year’s many elections, the polarisation of the online safety debate, free speech, content classification, and much more.

This conversation was recorded on 6 June 2024.

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